Download Computer Networks: Theory, Modeling, and Analysis

Computer Communication
Networks
Rajmohan Rajaraman
COM1337/3501
Textbook:
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach,
L. Peterson, B. Davie, Morgan Kaufmann
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What is this course about?
• Goal
– Convey the principles and mechanisms that are used to
build a computer network that can:
• Grow to global proportion (scalability)
• Support diverse applications
– Special attention is given to Internet protocols and
architecture
• Study how protocols work
• Explore underlying algorithmic concepts
• Understand implementation issues (network programming)
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Course Outline
• Introduction to networking: principles, architecture, services,
implementation issues
• Direct link
• Internet routing (IP)
• Transport protocols (TCP/UDP)
• Congestion control
• Multicast routing
• Internet security
• Applications
• Selected topics: Content delivery, Caching, Multimedia…
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Outline of Lecture 1
• Requirements
• Architecture
Reading: Chapter 1 of textbook
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Requirements
• Computer networks are different from classical
networks:
– General
– Not optimized for a specific application
• Requirements differ according to the perspective:
– Application programmer: services
– Network designer: resource efficiency and fairness
– Network provider: administration, manageability,
accountability
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Requirements
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Connectivity
Resource Sharing
Support for Common Services
Performance
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Connectivity
• Goal: allow machines to communicate
– Exceptions?
• Building blocks:
– Nodes: PC, workstations, special-purpose hardware…
• hosts
• switches
– Links: coax cable, optical fiber, wireless…
• point-to-point
• multiple access
(generally limited in size)
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Connectivity: Switched Networks
• A network can be defined recursively as...
– two or more nodes
connected by a link, or
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– two or more networks
connected by two or
more nodes
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Switching Strategies
• Circuit switching: carry bit streams
– On session establishment a path from source to destination is selected.
Resources are allocated over all the links of the path. Route does not
change during session life.
– Links can be shared by different sessions through mechanisms such
time-division multiplexing (TDM) or frequency-division multiplexing
(FDM)
– Guarantees: rate and packets delivery in order.
– Example: original telephone network
• Packet switching: store-and-forward messages
– Links are shared on a “demand basis” vs. fixed allocation
– Packets wait in a queue before being transmitted
– E.g., Internet mainly made out of packet switching
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Addressing and Routing
• Address: byte-string that identifies a node
– usually unique
• Routing: process of forwarding messages to the
destination node based on its address
• Types of addresses
– unicast: node-specific
– broadcast: all nodes on the network
– multicast: some subset of nodes on the network
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Requirements
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Connectivity
Resource Sharing
Support for Common Services
Performance
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Resource Sharing
• How do hosts that want to communicate share the
network resources?
– Links
– Router queues
• Fundamental resource sharing concept: multiplexing
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Multiplexing
• Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM)
• Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM)
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Statistical Multiplexing
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On-demand time-division
Schedule link on a per-packet basis
Packets from different sources interleaved on link
Buffer packets that are contending for the link
Buffer (queue) overflow is called congestion
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Requirements
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Resource Sharing
Support for Common Services
Performance
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Support for Common Services
• A computer network provides more than packet
delivery between nodes
• We don’t want application developers to rewrite for
each application higher layer networking services
• The channel is a pipe connecting two applications
• How to fill the gap between the underlying network
capability and applications requirements?
• Problem: identify a set of common services
– Delivery guarantees, packet length, delay, security
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Communication Patterns:
Types of Applications
• Interactive terminal and computer sessions:
– Small packet length, small delay, high reliability
• File transfer:
– High packet length, large delay, high reliability
• Voice application:
– Small packet length, small delay, low reliability, high arrival rate
• Video-on-demand:
– Variable/high packet length, fixed delay, low reliability
• Video-conferencing
– Variable/high packet length, small delay, low reliability
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Basic Channels
• Request/Reply channel:
– Guarantees single copy message delivery
– Can provide confidentiality and integrity
– Used for file transfer and digital library applications
• Message Stream channel:
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Supports one/two-way traffic, multicast
Parameterized for different delays
Does not need to guarantee message delivery
Guarantees order of delivered messages
Used for video-conferencing, video-on-demand
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Reliability:
What goes wrong in the network?
• Bit-level errors (electrical interference)
– 1/10^7 bits on copper, 1/10^12 bits on optical fiber
• Packet-level errors (congestion)
– Delayed, lost, or received out of order
• Link and node failures
• Security, Availability: Denial of Service, Integrity, …
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Requirements
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Performance
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Performance Metrics
• Bandwidth (throughput)
– data transmitted per time unit
– link versus end-to-end
– notation
• KB = 210 bytes
• Mbps = 106 bits per second
• Latency (delay)
– time to send message from point A to point B
– one-way versus round-trip time (RTT)
– components
Latency = Propagation + Transmit + Queue
Propagation = Distance / c
Transmit = Size / Bandwidth
– Examples of RTT: LAN, Cross-country link, Satellite
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Bandwidth versus Latency
• Relative importance
– 1-byte: 1ms vs 100ms dominates 1Mbps vs 100Mbps
– 25MB: 1Mbps vs 100Mbps dominates 1ms vs 100ms
• Infinite bandwidth
– RTT dominates
• Throughput = TransferSize / TransferTime
• TransferTime = RTT + TransferSize /Bandwidth
• 1-MB file to 1-Gbps link as 1-KB packet to 1-Mbps
link
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Delay x Bandwidth Product
• Amount of data “in flight” or “in the pipe”
• Example: 100ms x 45Mbps = 560KB
Delay
Bandw idth
• Why is it important to know Delay x Bandwidth
product?
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